Old Ford Granada stars in comedy 'The World's End'

5:02 AM,
Aug. 27, 2013

This old Ford Granada plays a prominent role in the film 'The World's End'
Laurie Sparham

Written by

Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY

A new British comedy hitting theaters this weekend, the World's End, might take place in 12 pubs during an epic, even world-ending pub crawl. But the real star may be star Simon Pegg's terrible, yet awesome car.

Gary King, a 40-something loser played by Pegg, screeches up to pick up his former school pals in a battered British Ford Granada known in the movie as "the beast." (The European Granada sedan, a U.K. icon and sold there by Ford Europe from 1972 to 1994, is unrelated to Ford's late 1970s car by the same name in the U.S.)

He is still rocking the tape player which has a mix of his favorite 1980s ...